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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/28] i386: map enough initial memory to create lowmem
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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:55:50 -0700
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Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Is some version of this going in for 2.6.21, or is it not a real problem?
> 
> When it's only seen with Xen it's not a real problem right now.

It's not just seen only with Xen, though.  It will affect all kernels in 
a particular range of sizes, and we have ordinary kernels covering that 
range (in fact, Xen hardly affects size in that way.)

	-hpa